Browsing by Author "Daniel Usner"
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Dickerson, Christina Marie (2011-03-25)Department: HistoryIn 1754, young George Washington, accompanied by Virginian soldiers and Indian allies, ambushed a French camp in the woods of the Ohio Country. Joseph Coulon de Villiers, sieur de Jumonville, the leader of the French ...
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Hardin, William Fernandez (2013-04-16)Department: HistoryThis dissertation seeks to throw open the courtroom doors and show how ordinary people—black and white, free and enslaved—shaped the law of manumission at a critical moment in American history. It is a detailed legal, ...
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Chresfield, Michell (2016-07-27)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines a century of biological and social scientific interest in four communities of presumed white, Indian, and African-American ancestry. Prior to the 1970s the Monacan Indians of Virginia, the ...
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Erickson, Miriam Rebekah Martin (2015-05-22)Department: HistoryThis dissertation project examines the impact of one particular insurgent slave group, the Black Auxiliary Troops of King Carlos IV, during the early years of the Haitian revolution. Led by free black generals Jean-François ...
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Duques, Matthew Elliot (2013-06-04)Department: English'To a Certain Degree' uses an understudied archive of formal education materials from New England and Mid-Atlantic states as a lens to disclose how the early U.S. novel dealt with social, political and economic anxieties ...